Posts by Ben Chapman
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Also, I won. Yay me!
Nice sign. I cheered for it.
Another one that I thought was quite smart was "Suffer Jet gets my vote", which I was preparing to give a good cheer to, though it wasn't a contender in the end.
Ours said "Go Jet Go" with accompanying traffic light, which is pretty modest, but was designed by an enthusiastic 4-year old.
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Lucy Jawgone (though I don't get the name, is it like Hugh Jorgon?)
Lucy Jordan, made famous by the ballad?
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there is another special event coming up that I will tell you about when I'm allowed to
I hope that turns out to be an inter-city bout.
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Yeah I was keeping watch of the lead jammer to see if she called off the jam (by placing her hands on her hips or, occasionally, crotch).
And sometimes bouncing her hands back up into a double bird.
There was so much more attitude on the track this time round. I guess the Grudgemaker was successful in making grudges.
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Not to mention, those of us timing were having real trouble getting anyone to notice us calling 2 minutes being up. You know the jam can end two ways, right Ben? When the jammer calls it, or when 2 mins is up - there were only a handful that went the full two minutes, mostly in the second half. You guys were so loud, and awesome, that the whistle blowing to end the two minutes was really hard to hear, even sitting right next to it.
There's so much to follow in the game that it's kind of a blur. I follow a jam mostly by watching the lead jammer and the ref on the jammer. I guess in the cases I am thinking about, as you say, the jam had run its two minutes, but the ref on the jammer hadn't heard the whistle.
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Be more constructive with your feedback, please. :)
Rebuke by Conchords. Love it.
Personally I think you guys did a fine job. And given the event, I think it is great that everyone involved is an enthusiastic volunteer.
In the spirit of constructive criticism though, one thing that did get me very confused was the couple of times you called a jam over prematurely, with the jammers still circling and chasing points.
I hope you're back for Civil Offence.
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Skate of Emergency was awesome. Even better than March's Grudgemaker. Or maybe it's just that I understand the game better. (Discovered that you can't smash someone from behind. Suddenly everything made so much more sense. I'm going to try to learn one new rule each bout.)
However, having changed my allegiance to Smash Malice between bouts, I would have been happier with a different result.
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I'm also assuming that Larry and co. will be punching their fists in the air with these sorts of headlines appearing around the world.
NZ Referendum Backs Smacking of Children
Not quite that bad but the headline at the BBC is
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Have you got a reference for that? I've heard that claim before, but never known where to look to verify the claim.
This Herald article is the closest I can get to the source of this claim.
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Maybe we should be turning all the confiscated boy-racer machines and surplus police vehicles into prisoner accommodation.